Windshield bracket



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` MrLLARD H. ToNcaAY, or nnmnoInMIcHIGAN, AssIGNoR To Henson Moron can COMPANY, OF DETROIT,` MICHIGAN', A CORPORATION OF MICHIGANI WINJVJSHIELDk BRACKET.

Application led February 26, 1926. Serial No. 90,766.

This invention relates to devices employed in automobile bodies for securing the windshield in adjusted position, and has for its general object to provide a simple and inexpensive device of this character which can be assembled in the `bod with a minimum expenditure of time anc labor, but which will nevertheless perform its intended function in a satisfactory and convenient manner. The more particularobjects of the invention will best be understood from the following description of a preferred form thereof illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which: j

Fig. 1 is a horizontal sectional view taken through the right forward corner of a closed automobile body having the invention applied thereto. i j

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary sectional perspective view of the front pillar and associated parts. n

Fig. 3 is a vertical section taken substantially on the line 3-3, Fig. 1, with the door omitted. c v

The invention is hereinshown as applied to a closed metal automobile body having a front pillar 10, a door 11 including a forward door pillar or upright 12 which closes against the rear side of the pillar 10, and a Windshield 13 which closes against the front side of the pillar 10. As shown, the pillar 10 is of sheet metal construction having a boxed cross section and formed at its rear inner corner with a rearwardly extending flange 14. The pillar or upright 12 of the door 11 as shown is also of sheet metalconstruction j having at its outer or forward side a flange connects the tops of the front pillars 10 at the opposite side of the body. The Windshield 13 has connected therewith an adjusting arm 20, said arm being shown asformed with a slot 21 (Fig. 2) and as pivoted at 22 to a lnaclret 23 securedV to the windshield 'trame 19.

Carried by the flange 14 is a bolt having a threaded stem 26 which extends through said iiange, and preferably also through a retainer 25 for a Windlace 24, said stem having at opposite .sides otl said flange and windlace retainer a head 27 and a nut 28 by which the bolt is secured in place in the flange. The sten/12 extends past the arm 20, which lies `:uljace11t thepillar l() and flange 14, said stem being provided beyond said arm with a nut for clamping said arm in adjusted positionthe threaded bolt with its two nuts 28 and 29 is oi `extremely simple construction, including only three parts, but serves, nevertheless,

eilective means for securing the` Windshield arni 2O in adjusted position. Adjustment of the windshield is readily ellected by loosening the wing nut 29 without disturbing i i the nut 2S which secured the bolt in place.

VHaving thus described my invention, I claim:

ln an automobile body, in combination, a 'liront pillar having' a flange, a Windshield, an arm "connected with said windshield and lying adjacent to said pillar, a threaded bolt estendingv through said flange and having a head and aA nut at opposite sides of said flange tor securing said bolt in place in said flange, one of said members being located between Vsaid 'flange and arm, and a second nut on said bolt beyond said arm for clamping the latter in adjusted position against` said last named member.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature. 

